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Zoomingo, a shopping and deal-finding app has raised USD1.25m fromBenaroya Capital and Naya Ventures along with other angel investors. The Mobile shopping platform allow users to find deals on nearby products. The company is also announcing an agreement with Simon Malls, an agreement which will promote the app in certain Washington and California malls.
“Working with Zoomingo furthers an overall strategy to broaden our consumer reach beyond our proprietary digital channels and drive incremental traffic to our centers,” said Mikael Thygesen, CMO at Simon Property Group. “With its comprehensive sale listings and unique personalization technology, Zoomingo helps shoppers save at their favorite shops throughout the mall.”
Beginning in November, Simon will promote the Zoomingo app in key California and Washington markets. Simon shoppers in these markets will be alerted to retailers’ sales and deals so they can save more and stretch their holiday budgets further. In addition to the savings, shoppers can also earn bonus Zoomingo ZPoints, which are redeemable for gift cards, for visiting these properties along with surprise gifts from stores within the mall.
Barclays has signed contracts with six of the fintech startups that just graduated from its second New York accelerator programme.
Company card killer Pleo has raised $3m in new funding as it prepares for public launch in the UK and Denmark.
Cheques are become less and less common in the UK according to new research from global market research firm Mintel which claims contactless card use has overtaken cheque payments in the UK for the first time.
Payments for digital and physical goods made mobile operating system-based payments platforms like Apple Pay and Android Pay are expected to boom in the next few years according to new analysis from Juniper.


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RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) – The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office has received more than a dozen complaints of baby formula price gouging.
In recent weeks, parents have been struggling to find specific types of baby food. Part of the shortage stems from an Abbott Nutrition formula recall in February due to safety issues. Abbott is the nation’s largest formula manufacturing facility.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has issued a consumer alert warning parents of potential scammers looking to take advantage of the current shortage. Stein’s office asked people to report concerns about the price cuts to their office. Records from Stein’s office show 13 reports of price gouging through Wednesday.
The most expensive baby formula was reported by a shopper whose complaint said he saw a 12-ounce can of Similac Total Comfort advertised online for $158.
Another person who filed a complaint with the state said they previously purchased a 32-ounce can of Gerber GentlePro formula for $36.50.
“I’ve bought it from this retailer before as it’s the same price in every store,” the complaint reads. State records show that when this person attempted to purchase a can of the same size on May 18, it cost them nearly $45.
Another shopper who filed a complaint said he previously bought a 35-ounce can of Similac for $41.99. When they bought this can on May 13, the same product cost them $51.86 on Amazon.
“The price is almost $10 more per can even if you buy the 3 pack. So I paid $30 more for the formula,” the complaint reads.
A Durham woman said she bought Enfamil infant formula at Walgreens in April for $20 for a 19-ounce can. When the buyer bought it again in May, it cost $40.
According to the complaint, “Even the person checking out commented on the outrageous price.”
https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/13-baby-formula-price-gouging-complaints-filed-in-nc/ 13 lawsuits filed in NC over baby food price cuts

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Engage:BDR launches phase 1 of Facebook paid social ads
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Engage:BDR (ASX:EN1) has deployed Facebook advertising as part of its paid social strategy. Ads on Facebook utilise users’ unique profiles as targeting metrics allows brands to reach their most appropriate potential customers.
Initially, as announced by the company on 11 February this year, the targeted launch date of this product was not until Q3 2019. Due to high customer demand, the first phase of this offering is now live, significantly ahead of schedule.
Product and revenue related objectives this year to date have seen significant achievements. Currently EN1 is comprised of only 15 full time staff, who each has a personal goal of generating at least US$1M in revenue for 2019.
About Facebook ads
EN1’s history with Facebook dates all the way back to 2010. Initially the company was a certified ad provider for the social network’s app developers (such as Canvas Apps). Subsequently, EN1 became a top inventory provider on Facebook’s video ad exchange, LiveRail.
Until now, EN1 has not sold Facebook’s core advertising product.
Unsurprisingly, Facebook is one of the world’s leading social media platforms, with over 2.3 billion unique monthly users. This large pool allows advertisers to reach their most appropriate audience, no matter the niche.
There are five main advertising mediums: newsfeed on desktop, newsfeed on mobile, sidebar on desktop, network on mobile and Instagram.
These ads can target users based on location, age, gender, interests, connections, relationship status and so on. Ads allow advertisers to improve and enhance brand awareness, traffic to site, store visits and conversions (as well as app installs and engagement).
Lead generation and retargeting are two common ad methodologies that allow these ads to reach a maximum number of people at a low cost.
EN1’s paid social strategy
EN1’s new offering will allow clients to target extremely niche audiences, otherwise nearly impossible to reach. Facebook’s advertising technology helps new and emerging brands to drive awareness, while simultaneously driving traffic to the brand’s site and storefront.
EN1’s technique of consistent optimisations and refreshing ad set creatives allows it to generate exceptional ROAS (return on ad sets) and scalability for the client. The company is upbeat about this method’s approach and will begin cross-selling the offering immediately.
With Facebook’s popularity highly unlikely to decline in the near future, it’s a highly viable channel to engage with.
In addition, EN1 also offers paid social plans on SnapChat, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Linkedin and more.
Over the course of 2019, the company expects to deploy several other paid social platforms, including tech to manage and integrate with the existing media channels EN1 owns.
Its IconicReach platform has direct and immediate synergy with the new paid social strategy. IconicReach clients have requested to add paid social to their campaigns as soon as possible.
EN1 will update the market on future phases of the strategy as well as an overall perspective when applicable.
Top 100 US marketers focus their budgets on three main areas: programmatic advertising, influencer marketing and paid social.
EN1 is a strong leader in two of these areas (programmatic and influencer marketing), and now, with this latest announcement, has strong foundations in each pillar.
EN1 explored the acquisition of a paid social firm in late 2018, but due to concerns around dilution it opted against the plan. Management has since decided to postpone this opportunity until its market cap and share price support such activities.
More recently the company has looked into the acquisition of a thriving Australian based paid social business. Such an arrangement would see EN1 gain tangible exposure with local clients and a team familiar with the local landscape and trends.
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has launched a new tool that will help people gain an accurate picture of how their online advertising drives conversions. Conversions from advertising can lead to store visits, phone calls, app downloads, online sales, etc. By getting a better picture of purchase paths, it can help you optimize online advertising and allocate budgets.
This is why Google launched the Estimated Total Conversions for search ads on Google.com. This tool will use login data to determine how many people have bought a product after seeing an ad from a Google search.
“We always knew our online ad investment was influencing conversions across devices, but we didn’t know how to begin estimating these numbers. Once we saw that 5.3% more conversions could be attributed to cross-device conversions in AdWords, we knew we could more accurately calculate the value we were receiving from each ad click. We also learned that mobile ads are driving 16% more conversions than we thought, so we are now investing more into this channel to gain more sales,? stated American Apparel marketing manager Sean Singleton.
The Estimated Cross-Device Conversion is the first new conversion type to launch as part of Estimated Total Conversions. Cross-device conversions start as a click on a search ad on Google.com on one device and end as a conversion on another device.
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Recent cyberattacks on corporations like Target, Banner Health and most recently public voter data have influenced corporations to take a much more offensive approach to their internal cybersecurity practices. As companies like Uber are shifting away from a traditional brick and mortar organization to a more cloud based platform, the need to protect consumer information has increased exponentially. Modern day ways of doing business now have much less to do with cash as they do a smart phone transaction.
To avoid any setbacks or loss of consumer trust, companies have been forced to rethink their approach to protecting consumer data from a “wait and see” to having skilled and educated employees in place who now take preemptive measures to test strategies and best practices before a breach occurs.
A recent study by CompTIA, a leading resource for the IT industry, has shown that companies now consider security one of the primary responsibilities of their IT team. Larger organizations may have a subset of individuals whose sole responsibility is protecting consumer data while other smaller companies rely on well trained individuals with Network+ or CISSP certifications leading the helm.
Long gone are the days where a simple firewall was sufficient security. Corporations must now assess vulnerability of data not only within but also vet the security capabilities of vendors with whom they work. An example of this would be third party credit card processors or cloud based CRM platforms like Salesforce who are trusted daily with detailed consumer information.
Regardless of the security measures a company takes, CompTIA has also found that the most common source of breached data is caused by human error—specifically untrained employees. Internal efforts to educate employees on cybersecurity best practices often fall short, creating a need for classroom based learning in a short amount of time.
Advanced Business Learning, a licensed State of Arizona postsecondary vocational school and a CompTIA Authorized Training Provider, offers a wide variety of courses which properly prepare workforces to meet today’s challenges in security management. Companies who wish to improve the knowledge base of their workforce can enroll employees in entry-level to advanced CompTIA courses which establish best practices in troubleshooting, networking and security across a variety of devices in a 5-day bootcamp. For those IT departments on the offensive, they may consider the investment in having their top IT professionals becoming ISC2 certified and ultimately becoming a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).


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Narendra Modi finally kicked off the Startup India program in an attempt to start a culture of innovation. The program is aimed at reducing hurdles for starting a business and taking it further. The Data Driver received a number of views and reactions from the industry on the new program.
Dinesh Goel, Co-Founder & CEO, AasaanJobs said, "The salient points of the Startup India initiative announced by PM Narendra Modi - tax exemption for incubators and startups, IPR protection, patent fee reduction, setting up of research parks across IITs and IISC and a corpus of Rs. 10,000 crore to be utilised for startups - all look quite promising in terms of attracting the best talent from far and wide to help India reach its potential. Other measures such as the exemption from capital gains tax when investing one's own wealth in a startup will ensure that many jobs are created in every level and human resource and talent acquisition will no longer be a bottleneck. Apart from this, no inspection for the first 3 years and self-certification for statutory compliance will enable startups to hire in bulk and scale up their operations, creating a cascading effect as far as job creation is concerned."
Shaifali Agarwal Holani,Founder & CEO,EasyFix said, "What an initiative and a great day for India. Most populated India has sharpest brains of all times and this initiative will give a platform to many enthusiastic but under confident talents to come out of their ordeal. Encouraging privatisation will speed the pace at which India is developing and we will become a developed country soon. For us, EasyFix is a labour development & construction focussed company, Mr. Modi said "he is trying to foster innovation and incubation" and our startup is looking forward to collaborating with Modi Govt for skill development and labour development initiatives. We want to be able to contribute to the society & transform the unorganised labour market by doing things right, and that is by better execution of skill development programs."
Radhika Aggarwal, Co-founder & CBO, Shopclues welcomed the move saying, "The government has acted like a disruptive start up. The policies around cleaning the license raj will be a huge booster for Startup community while both setting up and dissolving a company. Other initiatives such as tax benefits, easy IPR regulations, and government academia will go a long way in making India’s start up ecosystem super successful."
Akshay Verma, Co-founder & Director, Fitpass, said, "Startup India has provided strong encouragement and respectability to first generation entrepreneurs apart from smoothening processes. If the promises made are fulfilled timely, there is no doubt that India will be the global hotspot for job creators and problem solvers."


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ACCOUNT activity along Madison Avenue continues at a frenetic pace as a variety of advertisers as disparate as casinos, vitamin companies and makers of kitchen fixtures hire agencies and make other changes.
Mirage Resorts is unexpectedly changing agencies on the creative portion of its account, with billings estimated at $30 million, for the second time in less than six months.
Mirage, which operates casinos including the Bellagio, Golden Nugget, Treasure Island, Mirage and the new Beau Rivage, moved the creative duties to Korey Kay & Partners in New York from GSD&M in Austin, Tex. GSD&M, a unit of Omnicom Group, was hired in November after Mirage parted with Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco, part of Publicis S.A., after almost a decade.
GSD&M ''is a great agency,'' John Schadler, vice president for advertising at Mirage in Las Vegas, Nev., said in a telephone interview yesterday. ''But sometimes personalities can get in the way, and there was a personality problem between our group and theirs.''
''Allen and his group have worked for us on and off in the East and for some of our properties in the West,'' Mr. Schadler said, referring to Allen Kay, chairman and chief creative officer at Korey Kay. ''So it seemed logical to form a relationship in a more complete manner.''Continue reading the main story
Western International Media in Los Angeles, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies, continues handling Mirage's media buying.
Coincidentally, there was another decision on a creative assignment with billings estimated at $30 million. A joint venture between the General Nutrition Companies in Pittsburgh and the Rite Aid Corporation in Camp Hill, Pa., named the New York office of Publicis to create campaigns for Pharmassure, a new line of vitamins and supplements.
Pharmassure, which the joint venture promised would become one of the most heavily advertised brands in its field, is part of a 10-year strategic alliance that also calls for GNC stores to be opened inside Rite Aid drugstores. The two companies will also collaborate on selling products on the Internet.
''Pharmassure is a great idea and a wonderful opportunity,'' said Tony DeGregorio, president and chief creative officer at Publicis in New York. The decision came after a review that had been narrowed to Publicis and Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners in New York.
A review on the media duties for the joint venture has been narrowed to the Media Partnership in Norwalk, Conn., which works for GNC, and DeWitt Media in New York, which works for Rite Aid.
Circling back to GSD&M, that agency was named to develop the first national branding campaign in the 103-year history of the United States Olympic Committee. Billings for the print and television campaign, scheduled to start June 24, were estimated at $10 million.
The campaign for the committee, based in Colorado Springs, will attempt to burnish the image of American Olympic athletes. The Olympic movement has suffered a backlash from an influence-peddling scandal tied to the selection of Salt Lake City as the site for the Winter Games in 2002.
The International Olympic Committee, which has been tarnished by the disclosure of members' taking bribes and gifts to select Salt Lake City, is conducting a review to name an agency for an image campaign of its own, with billings estimated at $100 million to $150 million.
In another agency selection, the Kohler Company, the maker of kitchen and bathroom fixtures, named the Martin Agency in Richmond, part of the Lowe Group unit of Interpublic, to produce several national television commercials. Billings were not disclosed.
Laura Kohler, a spokeswoman at Kohler in Kohler, Wis., said the company typically ran television spots every three to five years, adding that the last time Kohler did so, in 1996, they were created by Deutsch Inc. in New York. Grey Advertising in New York continues to handle print advertising for Kohler.
The United States Tennis Association named Fallon McElligott New York City, a unit of Fallon McElligott, to produce campaigns for the 1999 United States Open tennis tournament, as well as to handle additional assignments promoting the association and tennis. Billings were estimated at $2 million to $3 million.
The decision came after a three-month review involving Fallon and four other agencies in New York: N. W. Ayer & Partners, part of MacManus Group; Lord Group, a joint venture of Dentsu Inc. and Young & Rubicam Inc.; Lowe & Partners/ SMS, part of Lowe Group, and Shepardson Stern & Kaminsky. Previously Grybauskas Beatrice in New York worked for the association.
The Sci Fi Channel in New York, a cable television network owned by USA Networks Inc., moved in-house the creative duties for its account, with billings estimated at $15 million, after a decision by Mullen Advertising in Wenham, Mass., to resign as agency of record.
Kat Stein, a spokeswoman for the network, said that a review for the media duties would be conducted during the next two to three months. Mullen agreed last week to sell a majority stake to Lowe Group.
Finally, Novartis Consumer Health North America in Summit, N.J., continued its recent shifting of media duties by awarding Ogilvy & Mather Broadcast and Programming U.S.A. in New York, part of the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide unit of WPP Group P.L.C., the network media assignment for Gerber products, with billings estimated at $20 million. Those duties had been handled by Western International Media in Los Angeles.
Novartis had recently shifted media duties for brands including Ex-Lax to Western from Ogilvy. Including Gerber, Ogilvy now handles all network broadcast buying duties for Novartis, with total billings estimated at $100 million.Continue reading the main story


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There are 20 potential business opportunities in agriculture, education, energy, manufacturing, information and communication technology, and tourism sectors across 20 dzongkhags according to a study initiated by the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).
A study titled, “Potential Business Opportunities Identification Study 2021”, launched yesterday, is expected to help substitute imports, increase exports, generate meaningful employment for the Bhutanese and supplement the government’s long-standing ambition of economic self-reliance.
Bhutan has been facing an increasing trade imbalance, which is a concern in managing the country’s current account deficit.
The study found that between 2016 and 2020, the overall exports including electricity increased by 37 percent to Nu 48.2 billion (B). When comparing trade deficits without hydropower, there is an import of Nu 66.5B and an export of Nu 20.7B which accounts for around 20 percent of the gross domestic product.
According to the chamber’s press release, the economic activities are mostly concentrated in urban centres, and one of the main objectives of the study was to create ample business opportunities in rural areas.
It further added that the growth of rural areas is of paramount importance to achieve sustainable and equitable socio-economic development while mitigating rural-urban migration.
“If the measures are not put in place to address this today, it might lead to a greater imbalance within the country.”
The study proposed a Yak Riding Center in high-altitude yak-laden areas for locals and tourists. “Highlanders who own yaks could display the true essence of its culture, food, and lifestyle. However, non-highlanders could also collaborate with the communities, particularly in the sourcing of food for the cafe,” the study stated.
Bhutan generates 7.02 metric tonnes (MT) of plastics both Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), every day. It accounts for 2,562MT in a year. The study proposed to start a reprocessing of hard plastic into flower pots.
Bhutan imported Nu 50.2 million (M) worth of nuts and bolts in 2020. There is potential for manufacturing units for nuts and bolts mostly used in the automotive industry, electrical equipment, spare parts, and most importantly construction industry. The study recommended a business venture into nuts and bolts, starting with a most selling size of 10mm and expanding into self-drilling screws for roofing sheets.
According to the Asian Development Bank, 5,140 buildings were constructed in dzongkhags and yenlag thromdes in the past five years. In Thimphu alone (Thimphu Thromde and Khasadrapchu), 2,780 buildings were constructed. The study finds a huge potential for landscape designing, fruits, flowers, and grass planting.
Bhutan also imported 57,986 numbers of LED bulbs in the past four years assembled in India with almost all components of the LED bulb coming from a neighbouring country. Realising the growing demand for LED bulbs in the country, the study recommends Bhutan’s own LED light assembly unit, at half the price of any product on the market.
The manufacturing unit of CNC wood-based wooden products was also proposed. With the use of a carving machine, products namely key chains, annual complimentary gifts (cardholder, penholder), home décor, and wood railing could be manufactured.
The study also said the manufacturing of tile adhesives has the potential to substitute polymer-based adhesives. Between 2015 to 2020, Nu 92M worth of polymer-based adhesives was imported, and Nu 63M alone in 2020.
The study also identified Dalle chilli sauce as a potential product. Given the Dalle consumption habit in the Bhutanese society, the new product Dalle sauce could easily enter the market and can substitute other sauces imported into the country, it added.
Another proposed idea was the manufacturing of gummy candy. The study finds that with growing health-oriented gummy candies, the idea will capitalise on the growing gummy candy market in the country as well as deliver to the export market with health-oriented gummies under the brand values of organic, Himalayan, pure, and pristine.
Although yoghurt is not a new product in the Bhutanese market, the study finds that the flavour addition in yoghurt is still missing in the country. “The flavour addition increases the value addition by as much as 140 percent as compared with plain yoghurt.” The study recommends a flavour-drinking yoghurt processing plant.
There is also potential for finger fryums popularly known as finger chips with their mass consumption among children and youngsters. However, it would need quality enhancement, improved packaging, and proper branding.
Poultry farming of native chickens was also considered a potential idea because native chickens are under threat of extinction, and it has high demand, tastier, and nutritious value.
Bhutanese could explore manufacturing soup and soft baby food, perceived as universal comfort foods. It can be an alternative replacement to the popular Nestle Cerelac.
Other ideas include the manufacturing of canned fruit cocktails, sachet-based Ezay, fried Tengma (flatten maize), banana cookies, ginger garlic paste, Tofu (bean curd), and frozen peas.
The chamber asked individuals or entrepreneurs to avail themselves of the detailed information from its Business Information and Facilitation Center.


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After announcing the Sony SmartBand at MWC 2014 this week, Sony has wasted no time in starting the retail blitz to get the devices into the hands of buyers. On the Sony Mobile Store, the device has already shown up for pre-order for £79.99 ($134 USD) in the U.K. and €99 ($136 USD) for other European markets. Although, Sony indicated the devices would be available in a variety of colors, thus far black appears to be the only choice available for early adopters that want to be the first to get the devices onto their wrists.
The first units of the Sony SmartBand destined for European markets and the U.K. are expected to be delivered in early April. That will give buyers an opportunity to spend some time with the Lifelog application prior to having the device in hand as Sony says the app should be available in Google Play sometime in March.
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ELOA Gets a Fresh Start at GamenGame
Game&Game has announced that ELOA has reopened at its portal GamenGame.com, after being published on Webzen in the past year.
ELOA’s servers reopen today, November 17, after testing earlier this week. The servers have been opened in North America, South America, and Europe.
Dennis Choi, CEO of Npic Soft said:
Newly started ELOA will not only open the content from the beginning to Level 50 of EPIC 2 course but also offer different and great experience with newly improved and upgraded system. Especially, update of “Town Domination War” will enable the users of guild collect taxes from each town after they win PvP battle between guilds. This update is adopted to solve the lack of End content which has been pointed out as vulnerable part. It will be started initially on the global version from December, right after ELOA’s official launch on GamenGame.com.
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Cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro Inc. has announced a complete redesign of its worldwide partner program, which it said will accelerate business growth for partners and “allow them to further deliver exceptional value to end customers.”
The program is built around the Trend Vision One platform, which the company said in a release “creates opportunities for partners to deliver services and assessments for both enterprise and SMB-focused partners.
“Customers are facing increased risks as threat actors derive greater monetary value from criminal activities. As cybersecurity demand grows, the need for in-house skills to protect data, companies, brands, industries and governments grows as well.”
Partners, it said, “can close this gap by delivering value via crucial services: MSSP, MSP, SOCaaS, XDR, Incident Response, and much more. To address this need, Trend is improving the ability for partners to offer assessments to customers, including Cyber Risk Assessments, new additions of External Attack Surface, Cloud Posture, and Azure AD Assessments.”
According to the company, more than 800 partners “have already leveraged Cyber Risk Assessment Services to complete 1,400+ customer assessments – and more new services are on the way.”


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Rooftop green belts, could potentially be seen on 30 percent of the city's high rises and 60 percent of its lower buildings by the time the games come around...Ten thousand square meters of rooftop lawns were planted in 2004 and the government plans to up that number to 100,000 square meters this year. The vegetation of choice is evergreen grass, which proves resilient against and Beijing's high temperatures and typic dry weather.
The city's gardening and clean air campaign will hopefully also include relocating 200 factories with major pollution issues as well as restricting office buildings, apartments, hotels, and shopping malls in the metropolitan centre.
Though China has claimed that Beijing has already accomplished difficult goals, critics wonder if the country is setting the bar for air quality too low. Whatever happens, Beijing's growth will certainly be scrutinized as the Olympics approach—as the old adage says, with great power comes great responsibility. Let's hope China—its sights set on making a huge international debut at the next Olympics as it enters a new industrial age—will rise to the challenge. The fate of the world may depend on it. ::Planet Ark [by MO]


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India Banned Tiktok And 58 Other Apps Originating In China
India china standoff: goi bans 59 chinese apps including tiktok, shareit the government banned 59 chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as tiktok, helo and wechat , to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on monday. The government of india on monday announced the ban of 59 chinese apps in the country. a day later one of the most popular short video applications tiktok has been taken down from appleapp store and also googleplay store. India on monday banned 59 apps originating from china, including very popular ones like the short video platform tiktok, uc browser, file sharing app shareit, and camscanner, which allows iosand androiddevices to be used as image and document scanners. what is the legal basis for india’s action?. India china standoff: goi bans 59 chinese apps including tiktok, shareit the government banned 59 chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as tiktok, helo and wechat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on monday. The list of apps banned by the government includes tiktok, which is extremely popular. the government announced the ban on the 59 chinese apps (full list below) monday night. the government said these apps were engaged in activities that were prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of india.
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The ban on the chinese apps comes after a june 15 border brawl in the ladakh region of the himalayas, details of which has been disputed by china and india. the indian military stated that 20 indian soldiers were killed in the brawl. India and china will hold another round of military talks on june 30 as border tensions in eastern ladakh continue. meanwhile, the government has banned as many as 59 apps, mostly chinese. India bans tiktok and 58 other apps as tensions with china escalate cnn india is banning tiktok and several other well known chinese apps, saying they pose a "threat to sovereignty and. India’s ministry of electronics and information technology has banned tiktok, wechat, and several dozen other china based apps it views as “engaged in activities prejudicial to sovereignty and. The indian government on monday evening said it was banning 59 apps developed by chinese firms over concerns that these apps were engaging in activities that threatened “national security and.
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India bans tiktok and 58 other chinese apps citing security concerns (bloomberg) india banned bytedance ltd.’s viral short video service tiktok and 58 other chinese apps, citing threats to its. In a major setback to china, the government of india has imposed a ban on 59 apps that were owned by chinese companies. some immensely popular apps including tiktok, uc browser, camscanner, and others were banned in india. the development comes in the wake of india china clash at the galwan valley earlier this week. India's ban on 59 chinese apps, including the wildly popular tiktok and wechat platforms, has left millions of users surprised and disappointed. the government in delhi said the apps were. India bans tiktok and dozens of other chinese apps amid border standoff a court in southern india banned the app over complaints that it exposed children to sexual predators, cyberbullies, and. Bytedance’s mega app tiktok has been removed from android and apple app stores in india, its second largest market, following a monday ban on 59 chinese apps on national security concerns. the ban comes two weeks after a border clash with china left 20 indian soldiers dead.
Chinese Apps Banned In India Including Tik Tok And Shareit
The ban is a major blow for tiktok, which has over 120 million monthly active users in india. the country accounts for nearly 30% of tiktok’s overall 2 billion downloads. in april 2019, tiktok. India bans tiktok, other chinese apps amid border standoff. indian protesters have been calling for a boycott of chinese goods since the june 15 confrontation in the remote karakoram mountain. Here’s why govt banned tiktok, shareit and other 57 china linked apps the government on monday banned 59 mobile apps linked to china saying they are prejudicial to india’s sovereignty. Tiktok stop. 59 chinese apps banned by india the move came amid tension with china following the june 15 clashes at ladakh in which 20 indian soldiers died in action and more than 70 were injured. India has officially instituted a chinese app ban which specifically targets 60 applications. among the apps is the insanely popular tiktok as well as some other favorites of android users. india.
Tiktok Shareit Uc Browser Among 59 Chinese Apps Banned
The ban on chinese apps, signed by india’s powerful home minister amit shah, asked phone companies to begin blocking the applications tuesday, as top army officers from india and china were set to meet for a third time to try to quell tensions and rein back on military build ups in the disputed border area. India business news: new delhi: india on monday banned as many as 59 chinese apps, including popular ones like tiktok, shareit and uc browser amid border tensions with chi. The government of india has announced a ban on 59 chinese apps that were listed on the google play store and the apple ios app store in india. the list includes the popular short video service tiktok, browser and content app uc browser, file sharing service shareit, women specific fashion shopping app shein, popular mobile game clash of kings. Last month, india banned 59 apps with chinese links, including the hugely popular tiktok and uc browser, saying they were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country. Why tiktok & other chinese apps are now banned in india. the government of india has now banned tiktok twice in 2020. the company suffered significant losses from the initial ban, prompting a lawsuit.
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India bans tiktok, other chinese apps amid border standoff bytedance also operates the now banned helo social networking app, which was created for the indian market and has over 50 million users. Chinese app ban in india || 59 chinese app banned in india | tiktok ban in india 😮🔥| 59 chinese apps banned by indian govt. | share it, uc browser ban in india duration: 2:30. India's government has banned tiktok and dozens more chinese made apps it says are a danger to the country. in a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of india, defence of india, security of state and public order". in total, 59 apps were banned among them popular messaging app wechat. These banned chinese apps, however, will not be available on the main platforms for ios and android users alike the chinese app ban is bound to mark a huge impact on the business of these apps, with possibly millions of active users going to zero within a day india has actively sought a ban on some of these chinese apps for various issues. The indian government order that called for the 59 chinese apps ban included popular apps like tiktok, shareit, uc browser, helo, baidu map and more just earlier this month, early hints indicated that as many as 52 chinese apps were being considered to be banned by indian government. even an app called 'remove china apps' had become insanely popular in a very short time, clocking over 10 lakh.


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Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced business commentators. Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia’s #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, Alan also founded Business Spectator, the popular business news and commentary website. Alan is the regular finance presenter on the ABC News and producer of the popular nightly graph (or two).
Google's $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs shined a light on the potential of smart monitoring devices. Telstra and Hills Group are getting active in the Australian market, particularly when it comes to security.
A US internet security firm has putatively uncovered the largest data breach known to date, with 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses pilfered by a Russian cyber gang.


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Caravan Ingredients, Lenexa, Kan., recently launched a corporate rebrand that includes an updated company logo and brand positioning.
The new logo has design elements that convey the brand attributes of the company: modern, passionate, creative and focused. It is paired with new advertising creative that reflects the same. The new creative is being rolled out across all industries served by Caravan Ingredients, including industrial and wholesale baking, retail and in-store bakery and food.
“Our new brand positioning is a logical step as we start thinking about the face of our new company and how we will reach our goal of becoming a leading global player in bio-based products,” says Mary Bentley, vice president of marketing and business development. “Our updated logo and creative helps to establish Caravan Ingredient’s position in food and bakery and allow us to further build on the equity of our brand.”


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“…an unforgiving journey into the soul’s darkest recesses and making sense of… the horrors that life’s experiences have brung.”
It’s been a while since a horror movie’s remake achieved the levels of anticipation like the kind Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming remake of Suspiria has wracked up this last year. Since its official announcement two years ago, many questions and equal the trepidation about what the Call Me by Your Name director could possibly bring more »
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While contactless payments in the U.K. are seeing off-the-charts popularity among consumers, a relatively small but growing number of them are saying "no" to it.
The new emerging trend comes as the U.K. undergoes a massive upgrade of payments terminals and as the customers pull an extra £10 out of their pockets with the new £30 transaction limit in force.
However, if numbers just from the Royal Bank of Scotland and its subsidiary NatWest Bank — the largest retail bank in the U.K. — were to be considered, of the 8 million to 9 million contactless cards that have been issued since the end of 2013, the banks reportedly have received only 1,200 requests for a non-contactless card.
Though the number might appear to be almost insignificant to most, the reasoning behind the thinking of those consumers came out to be pretty solid.
As PYMNTS reported in July this year, research conducted by a U.K.-based watchdog group demonstrated how a simple scanner could pick up essential details, including the credit card number and expiration date, for as many six different debit cards.
With approximately 58 million contactless cards of the type used in the test, consumers in the U.K. are increasingly at risk.
Privacy expert Peter Eisenegger from the National Consumers Federation told The Daily Mirror that a small percentage of cards could even be read from up to 8 inches away.
“Even if this was to occur in 0.1 percent of cases, with more than 300 million transactions taking place last year, many consumers could be affected,” he said.
When This is Money, a U.K.-based financial website, reached out to different financial institutions, including Santander, HSBC, Lloyds and Nationwide BS, asking about the option of opting out of a contactless card, they all responded that it was indeed possible.
Amidst this, however, the U.K. Cards Association doesn’t believe in an imminent fraud threat to issuers or consumers. “Instances of fraud on contactless cards are in fact extremely rare, with losses of less than a penny for every £100 spent on contactless — far lower even than overall card fraud,” said Richard Koch, head of policy at the U.K. Cards Association, in an interview with The Guardian.


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, along with , under the Flipkart Air Consortium, has commenced drone-based logistics transportation for the delivery of vaccines in Telangana.
Ecommerce gianthas partnered with the Telangana government to enable drone deployment for the delivery of medical supplies in remote areas of the state amidst the COVID-19 pandemic for its 'Medicines from the Sky' project.
The consortium comprises Flipkart, Skye Air, DroneAcharya Aerial Innovations, Altitude Angel and Alternative Global (in partnership with Bagmo).
The consortium plans to conduct over 60 deliveries in the next one week, Skye Air said in a release.
The first Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone trial run under the project was kick-started in the Vikarabad district of Telangana on September 11.
"These BVLOS demonstration, under the Flipkart Air Consortium, have started on September in Vikarabad, Telangana, and will continue till October 3," the release said.
"It's been a fabulous journey so far for us. Skye Air One has proven to be the most reliable drone in India by completing 125 deliveries in real case scenarios. We are very excited to partner with Flipkart and contribute to this beginning of a long journey. In the next one week, we anticipate to complete over 60 deliveries and test multiple use cases in the healthcare sector," said Swapnik Jakkampudi, Co-founder, Skye Air Mobility.
According to Prateek Srivastava, Founder and CEO, DroneAcharya, drone deliveries are going to revolutionise the ecommerce, healthcare, and disaster response sectors as they increase the efficiency of last-mile deliveries in terms of speed and accuracy through precision landing and delivery.
"Being an Indian company, this initiative is a major step in supporting the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan," he said.
A leading drone delivery tech startup, Skye Air, with a base of operations in Hyderabad and New Delhi, specialises in drone delivery solutions. Its flagship drone, Skye Air One, is a delivery drone in India within the small category.
DroneAcharya Aerial Innovations is a data-driven company, having expertise in drones, satellites, and GIS. Specialising in carrying out drone surveys, data processing, web and mobile app development, and training and consultancy, the startup has developed solutions for both government organisations and the private sector.
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(ATF) Chinese electric vehicle (EV) firm Nio was boosted by a ‘buy’ rating from Nomura that drove another 6% rise in its Nasdaq stock price on Friday January 22, while property firm Evergrande raised $3.4 billion to join the EV rush on Sunday.
Nomura initiated coverage of electric vehicle firm Nio with a bullish report that gave another boost to one of the most widely traded Chinese stocks.
Nio saw its Nasdaq share price rise to touch $65 before closing the day up by around 6% at $62. That gives Nio a market capitalisation of $96.6 billion, with every chance of breaching $100 billion soon.
Nomura hailed Nio’s “Tesla-like top-down approach in launching its EV pipeline” with relatively expensive products such as its ES8 model, as it gave a price target just over $80, and help to drive another rally in the Nio share price.
The comparison with Tesla – which now has a market cap of just over $800 billion – helps to explain the most recent uptick on heavy trading volume of Nio’s shares.
The frenzied appetite for stock in EV firms that seem to have a viable path to future sales growth also helps to explain why companies with little obvious expertise in the sector are trying to crash the party.
Troubled Chinese property firm Evergrande’s Hong-Kong listed electric vehicles firm said on Sunday it would bring in six new investors to raise HK$26 billion ($3.4 billion) to fund technology research and repay debt, for example.
China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Ltd will issue 952.4 million shares at HK$27.3 each to new investors who include China Gas chairman Liu Minghui and Chan Hoi-wan, spouse of China Estate shareholder Joseph Lau, the firm said, according to Reuters.
The price offers a 9% discount to Friday’s close of HK$29.90, the company said in a filing.
The other four new investors are Cosmic Success Holdings Ltd, Upper World Ltd, Heyirong International Trade Co. Ltd and Greenwoods Global Investment Ltd.
China Evergrande, the country’s most indebted property developer, has been scrambling for cash as Beijing plans new debt-ratio caps to tackle what it considers excessive borrowing in the real estate development sector.


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SpartanNash (SPTN) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.01 EPS
SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday. The company reported $0.24 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.01, Bloomberg Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $2.54 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.51 billion. SpartanNash had a return on equity of 9.31% and a net margin of 0.42%. SpartanNash’s quarterly revenue was up 6.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.55 earnings per share. SpartanNash updated its FY 2019 guidance to $1.20-1.50 EPS and its FY19 guidance to $1.20-1.50 EPS.
Shares of SPTN opened at $13.88 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 2.10, a quick ratio of 0.94 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.95. The firm has a market cap of $536.04 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.42, a PEG ratio of 1.64 and a beta of 1.19. SpartanNash has a 12 month low of $13.34 and a 12 month high of $26.99.
In other SpartanNash news, Director Yvonne R. Jackson sold 1,800 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.33, for a total transaction of $32,994.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 33,081 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $606,374.73. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Elizabeth A. Nickels sold 4,676 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.45, for a total transaction of $81,596.20. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 42,493 shares in the company, valued at approximately $741,502.85. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 11,152 shares of company stock worth $188,845 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock.
A number of analysts recently weighed in on the company. Barclays decreased their price objective on SpartanNash from $15.00 to $13.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday. Zacks Investment Research downgraded SpartanNash from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 7th. BidaskClub downgraded SpartanNash from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 30th. ValuEngine downgraded SpartanNash from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 6th. Finally, Pivotal Research restated a “sell” rating and issued a $12.00 price objective (down from $14.00) on shares of SpartanNash in a report on Thursday, February 21st. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the stock. The company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $20.17.
SpartanNash Company distributes and retails grocery products. It operates in three segments: Food Distribution, Military, and Retail. The Food Distribution segment offers approximately 60,000 stock-keeping units, such as dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, delicatessen items, bakery goods, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty care, and pharmacy products to independent retailers, national retailers, food service distributors, e-commerce providers, and corporate owned retail stores.
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The ruling allowed the brewer to exclude the two largest shareholders from the vote on the £79bn takeover offer from AB InBev.
The transaction would bring together AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, with SABMiller, the world’s second largest brewer, creating a global market leader.
Tobacco company Altria and Colombia’s Santo Domingo family, which own about 40% of the business, would be treated as a separate class of shareholder.
The High Court ruling came after some SABMiller shareholders mounted a revolt and AB InBev’s revised offer was accepted.
It was mooted that the split was a move designed to appease tension among investors.
Altria and Bevco to consent separately
A statement from the SABMiller board said: “The result of this is that Altria and Bevco will consent to the UK scheme separately and will not vote with other SABMiller shareholders.
“Altria and Bevco have both irrevocably undertaken to consent to the UK scheme.”
A general meeting of SABMiller shareholders is set to take place on September 28.
According to reports, the takeover could be blocked if just 15% of investors rejected the deal.
In June 2016, AB InBev’s acquisition of SABMiller was cleared by the European Commission (EC). The EC confirmed that the clearance is conditional on AB InBev selling SABMiller’s entire beer business in Europe.
Divest in Europe
AB InBev offered from the outset to divest the whole of SABMiller’s business in France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK to pre-empt possible concerns.
AB InBev had already accepted an offer from the Japanese brewer Asahi for the businesses in those countries.
To dispel additional concerns identified by the EC, AB InBev also offered to divest SAB Miller’s business in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Meanwhile, SABMiller acquired London craft brewery Meantime Brewing Company, in May 2016.
The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, marked SABMiller’s first entry into the UK craft beer market.
The original takeover bid was agreed in October 2015 and was worth £68bn.
Brands owned by SABMiller and AB InBev
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Tiburon (CA) – The graphics industry continues to grow at an astonishing rate. Intel and Nvidia are the market, selling a combined 77.1% of all graphics chips. AMD (ATI) is trailing its two rivals and is still dealing with declining unit shipments and market share.
According to a report released by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) released today, 106.4 million graphics chips were shipped in Q4, up 27% from 83.5 million units in the fourth quarter of last year. Notebooks were the key reason for this increase in shipments: Of those 106.4 million graphics chips, 39.6 million went into laptops – which means that 37.2% of graphics chips went into mobile systems in Q4. JPR said that notebook graphics shipments climbed by 35.7% year over year, while desktop graphics units gained only 8.3%.
Intel and Nvidia are apparently the only beneficiaries of this development and are the driving forces in a market that has expanded dramatically over the past year.
Since Intel dominates the chipset segment, the company remains the largest graphics chip manufacturer overall: JPR estimates that Intel shipped 43.7 million graphics units in Q4, translating into a 43.5% market share. Intel was able to grow its shipments by 40.2% year over year. Nvidia is keeping the pace and is actually outgrowing Intel on a percentage basis: The manufacturer shipped about 33.8 million chips in Q4, translating into a 33.6% share and a 42.3% year over year growth.
AMD is still struggling to bring its graphics unit back on track, according to JPR’s numbers. Unit shipments dropped from 19.2 million in Q4 2006 to 18.6 million in Q4 2007. The firm’s market share dropped from 23.0% to 18.3% in the same time frame.
“The fourth quarter of 2007 was seasonally good, and saw significantly greater sequential growth from the third quarter compared to last year. This is especially interesting since Q3 2007 was so good,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “The major growth in the desktop segments was for Mainstream and Value class add-in boards as is typical for the holiday period.”
Peddie confirmed that “there is strong overall demand” in the current graphics market. “There is little shift in market share between GPU vendors quarter to quarter, which suggests there is no channel stuffing or double ordering. However, Nvidia’s G80 has exceeded expectations and is on allocation,” the analyst noted.
Peddie described and 2007 as an “exceptional year” and he does “not expect to see the same kind of growth in 2008.”


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One of the main takeaways of this year’s survey is that payment behaviour has become slightly more restrictive: with a gas-crisis on the horizon, fewer companies are offering payment terms (71%) compared to last year (74%).
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Smart Speaker is offered for free with Redmi K50i.
Xiaomi’s free speaker costs Rs 4999.
Redmi K50i was launched in India this month.
Xiaomi Redmi K50i Offer: Xiaomi recently introduced the Redmi K50i, and now the company has brought some good news related to it. The company has announced that users who purchase the Redmi K50i will receive a smart speaker for free. The special thing is that this speaker, which is available for free, has also been launched a few days ago and is priced at Rs 4,999. This means that the company offers a good range of free products. This offer can be found from Mi.com and offline. Redmi K50i is the latest smartphone from the company, which has been launched at a price of less than Rs 30,000.
Redmi K50i 5G has a 6.6-inch FH+ IPS LCD screen, which has a resolution of 1080 x 2460 pixels. The special thing is that its screen comes with a refresh rate of 144 Hz and a touch sampling rate of 270 Hz.
(Also read: Even if you’re not even using a fake iPhone, here’s how to identify the fake and the real one)
This smartphone is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 chipset, which is paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. This device is said to provide 2 years of system updates and 3 years of security updates.
As a camera, the triple rear camera setup has been given to Xiaomi’s new Redmi K50i 5G, which includes a 64-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro sensor. The front of the phone packs a 16-megapixel selfie camera.
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The Redmi K50i has a 7-layer graphite vapor chamber for thermal management along with Liquid Cooling Technology 2.0. Power-wise, this phone has 67W fast charging support and packs a 5080mAh battery. The dual speakers of Redmi K50i come with Dolby Atmos support. The phone also includes a 3.5mm headphone jack.
How much does the phone cost?
Redmi K50i price in India starts from Rs 25,999 for the 6GB + 128GB model. This new phone also comes in an 8GB + 256GB model, which costs Rs 28,999. The phone comes in Phantom Blue, Quick Silver, and Stealth Black colors.
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Large UK Restaurant Chains Must Now Display Calorie Count
New calorie labelling rules come into force in the UK.
Compulsory calorie counting
Under the new regulations, UK restaurants and cafes with 250 or more employees are required to display calorie counts of non-prepacked food and soft drink items on their menus, websites or delivery platforms.
The new rule is part of the Government's strategy to tackle obesity with research showing British people are eating out and ordering more takeaways than in the past.
Obesity is one of the biggest health issues in the UK. The Health Survey for England 2019 estimates about 64% of adults in England are obese or overweight. According to NHS Digital, there were more than one million admissions to hospitals in 2019/20 where obesity was a factor.
"Waste of time and money"
The mandatory calorie labelling, which was announced by the government in May last year, has received a mixed response.
“What a terrible, terrible thing to happen to the hospitality industry and a waste of time, money and a potential danger,” MasterChef winner Sven Hanson Britt tweeted.
Many industry leaders believe the new labelling may also be difficult to administer and could negatively affect people with eating disorders. Mandatory menu labelling has already been introduced in some other countries, including the US and parts of Australia.
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Alan Halsall, the owner and chairman of the company – which has long been popular with Royals including the Duchess of Cambridge – sold the firm thirteen years after he plucked it from receivership to the Chinese conglomerate Fosun in a deal arranged by Cavendish Corporate Finance.
Fosun has already invested in Western companies including Thomas Cook and the Cirque Du Soleil entertainment group.
Silver Cross chief executive Nick Paxton said the new owners would provide business connections in China, where the manufacturer launched two years ago.
He said: ‘People think China is an easy win for business, but it’s not. Fosun will give us significant assistance, not only with local knowledge and connections in China, but with investment there and other international markets.’
Paxton said he and Halsall’s sons, Ben and Jonathan, have bought minority stakes in the newly acquired business.
The brand hopes to capitalise on the expected rise in the birth rate in China where restrictions on the number of children per family have been lifted and there is an appetite for iconic Western brands.


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The Hertz Corporation has continued, once again, its commitment to offer the easiest, fastest experiences in the car hire industry by allowing customers to upgrade their rental cars or choose a different rental altogether with their smartphones. This new ability is only available to Hertz Gold Plus Rewards members, who are offered a series of vehicles on their mobile phones. These cars can be hired instead of the vehicle they have reserved.
This new ability has been made available through substantial improvements to Hertz’s Carfirmations and Mobile Gold Alerts service. Carfirmations include emails and mobile texts that notify Gold Plus Rewards members about their hire reservation before they arrive at a rental location. The information in these notifications includes the location of and details about the vehicle hired. Clicking a link in the notification provides members with three options at US airport locations, including upgrading their rental car, choosing a different car and switching to the Deal of the Day. Vehicles with NeverLost GPS are offered where available as well.
Now members can perform a vehicle change with just three screen touches before their time of pick-up and without having to go through a rental agent. To offer new upgrades, Hertz trialled the service in Washington DC and Los Angeles during December, and thousands of people participated. After receiving positive feedback, the company is now introducing Mobile Gold Alert upgrades at the top 50 US airport locations.
Mark P. Frissora, the chairman and chief execute of Hertz, says that their customers expect convenience and speed. This is why they continue investing in user-friendly tools and services in a world that’s increasingly driven by technology. Carfirmations give their valued Gold Plus Rewards members the ability to upgrade reserved hires right from their smartphones as soon as they land at airports. This is one-of-a-kind in the car hire industry, and customers say they love it.
This upgrade is one of the many technology enhancements Hertz has made to its services. One of these improvements has been to Hertz Gold Choice, allowing rewards members to choose their own vehicle, which can be changed on the go, and then head for the exit gate. This isn’t offered by any other car hire operator. There have also been enhancements to the e-Return service, which allows customers to drop-off their vehicle and go. Customers receive receipts within an average 30 minutes of dropping off the car. On 78% of Gold Plus Rewards members’ transactions, over two million e-Return receipts have been emailed. In fact, 650,000 are sent every month.
Another service that Hertz has upgraded is its ExpressRent Interactive Kiosk network. These are available at over 100 neighbourhood and airport locations across the US and Europe. It’s the only self-service kiosk available in the car hire industry that’s equipped with a touchscreen and second screen. They allow customers to interact with live customer service agents through video – whether they are making a rental reservation or picking up a hire. More than 8,000 kiosk hire transactions are recorded every week in the US, which has broken a record as of late.


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From coverage in Elle and Vogue magazine, to promotion by Coles, Woolworths and even Aussie celebrities, Veganuary has had its biggest year yet! Veganuary began in the UK in 2014, with the inaugural campaign challenging individuals to go vegan for the month of January. Today, Veganuary has expanded to include participants in 192 countries worldwide.
With the growing variety and availability of plant-based alternatives to animal products, it’s no wonder thatover half a million people all over the world signed up to give Veganuary a crack this year! Even after January, 2021 is full of promise for businesses that include vegan goods and services alongside their typical product line-up.
Need convincing? Here are 3 reasons your business should celebrate Veganuary all-year round:
- Consumer demand
As more of us learn where our food truly comes from – and people come to understand the detrimental impacts that animal agriculture has on our planet – we’ve seen many Aussies begin to adopt a ‘flexitarian’ diet. Flexitarians opt for plant-based foods as often as possible, but are not strictly vegetarian or vegan.
Australia is one of the fastest growing markets for plant-based foods globally – with Millennials and Gen Z choosing to eat fewer animal products. What’s more, according to independent think tank Food Frontier, 10% of Australians have now ditched meat completely, and that number is only continuing to grow.
Many popular plant-based food alternatives are currently imported, making now a great time for Aussie businesses to get into the game and offer locally produced alternatives. After all, vegan options don’t have to start and finish with food! Plant-based and cruelty-free fashion, beauty, and lifestyle products are all in hot demand.
- Lifestyle trends
Today, consumer reports show that the retail opportunity attached to plant-based alternatives is worth an estimated $4 billion! You can walk into any major grocery store in Australia and find dedicated spaces for plant-based foods.
In many cases, vegan products are staking their claim in the freezer, chiller and pantry aisles, right alongside traditionally animal-based counterparts. While products vary from store to store, widespread accessibility to plant-based options is only growing stronger. In fact according to Food Frontier, plant-based product launches have more than doubled in the past five years!
Beyond FMGC, businesses in the food service industry are trying to keep up with growing trends too, and we’re not just talking about niche restaurants and cafés. Big name chains such as Domino’s, Hungry Jack’s, Subway, Grill’d, Baskin Robbins, 7/11 and many more are after a slice of the plant-based pie. What may have started as a lifestyle trend for some now shows absolutely no signs of slowing down.
- Sustainable business
The urgency of climate change has compelled many consumers to support sustainable business practices, and with the world’s population set to reach 10 billion by 2050, many have begun to think about their food choices too.
According to Food Frontier, livestock upkeep uses 80% of the world’s agricultural land, yet produces only 18% of the calories our population consumes. Not only is ⅓ of global croplands used to grow feed for farm animals, ¼ of all the planet’s habitable land is used for livestock grazing.
Even largely meat-focused national chains such as Grill’d or Hungry Jacks have taken a more serious stance on sustainability. For example, Meatless Monday promotions encourage customers to choose plant-based options at least once a week. Together, consumers are seeking to reduce their environmental impact, one burger at a time.
If you want to get involved in the Australian plant-based space, you’ll need an expert team who understands the vegan market first-hand. Contact us here to book in a free 30-minute chat with our team today!
AUTHOR: Nicole Odviar
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text: Google recently announced Google Now at Google I/O conference at San Francisco. Google Now is an improved voice search that was already present in Android. With Google Now this search has got more powerful. Google Now is only available for Jelly Bean aka Android 4.1 users. Not anymore, Google has announced that Google Now will soon be integrated to iOS Google Search app. For those who don’t know Google Now is Siri like feature that can speak your answer right back to you. So for those who won’t own iPhone 4S and Siri can use Google Now.


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Regulation on large supermarkets went too farAfter reading the Korea JoongAng Daily article “No tofu, eggs or soju at E-Mart if Seoul gets its way” (March 9), I found myself surprised at the persistence of lawmakers in taking a bad idea even further. These measures are supposed to help mom-and-pop markets, but I believe they are doing more harm than good.
Now they want to prevent the large supermarkets from selling 51 staple items so as to force consumers to give business to smaller markets because the other measures aren’t working? This seems ridiculous.
It seems clear that many consumers prefer large supermarkets over the smaller markets. There are many obvious reasons for this. Prices, convenient hours for those working nonconventional hours, one-stop shopping and adequate parking are among the more apparent.
Another reason, which seems to me to be very important, is the fact that the livelihoods of supermarket employees will be negatively affected. There must be thousands and thousands of people who work at the supermarkets who will lose hours, if not their jobs, when the supermarkets are forced to close.
Although the mom-and-pop stores’ business may be suffering, at least these people own businesses. They are relatively well off. But what about those thousands of middle-aged people who work various jobs at the supermarkets who may not be able to make up for lost wages or who may lose their jobs because of the reduction of supermarket hours and closures? What about the younger people who may not even get an entry-level job because of the closures and reductions?
The supermarkets are willing to give these people employment opportunities; the customers are willing to provide business. But the regulators seem only concerned with the relatively few owners of small businesses; they don’t seem to consider the hardship of thousands of these supermarket employees.
Once again, I sympathize with the plight of the small market operators. But surely the inconvenience for such a very large number of affected consumers as well as the aforementioned supermarket employees should make the regulators reconsider their proposals. The modern consumer already has many hurdles to jump in order to provide a fair livelihood for themselves. Removing these regulatory hurdles would be a step in the right direction.
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Dell doubles down on justifying XPS 15 9570 problems
Dell is pushing the benefits of Modern Standby over the S3 sleep for the XPS 15 9570 hard. The company has published a Knowledge Base article as it previously promised it would, which has been publicised by XPS Vice President and General Manager Frank Azor on Twitter.
Dell insists that Modern Standby will wake a system faster than S3 can, which Microsoft has thoroughly covered in its own support article. In essence, Dell is telling XPS 15 9570 owners that having wake on Wi-Fi enabled along with an outdated BIOS and drivers are to blame for high power consumption when the device is asleep. Incidentally, these also apply to the Precision 5530. Dell states the following too for both devices:
Set the system up to use Modern Standby – Disconnected. This tells the NIC not to stay awake while in sleep mode. This is what Dell sets in the factory by default[.]
How to do this is still elusive though, as Dell has previously told people to do this without explaining how to do so. As the first comment on Azor's corresponding tweet pointed out, Dell is failing to acknowledge that Modern Standby is causing some XPS 15 9570 laptops to get hot when asleep and experience high battery drain.
Dell is still yet to offer a reason why it will not re-include S3 in the XPS 15 9570 BIOS, which it removed almost a year ago. We doubt that this is at Microsoft's insistence either, as Lenovo bowed to consumer pressure and re-enabled S3 sleep with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Dell's intransigence is undoubtedly frustrating its customers though. Otherwise, it would not have released a Knowledge Base article explaining how S3 sleep so inferior to Modern Standby. Removing a feature and forcing customers to use something that causes issues was never going to be a popular decision.


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Every year, thousands of motivated entrepreneurs launch new businesses. While led by determined and ambitious individuals, half won’t make it past the fourth year.
Yet fail or succeed, these same entrepreneurs and founders still receive high praise when it comes to news coverage. It is a skewed perception that should remind future entrepreneurs to look beyond headlines when setting expectations about their careers, Western researchers say.
For the study, the Western research team used machine-learning to analyze close to 500,000 New York Times (1999-2014) and 300,000 Financial Times (2003-14) articles containing the words “entrepreneur” and “founder” when related to careers in new ventures, as well as the words “manager” and “executive” when looking at established organizations.
Coverage from the New York Times (81 per cent) and Financial Times (74 per cent) was overwhelmingly positive when referencing entrepreneurs and founders, compared to just 53 per cent and 54 per cent, respectively, for executives and managers.
A parallel analysis of companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google was also compared to a to a set of older and more established Fortune 500 companies. Both produced similar results, showing overwhelmingly positive response for entrepreneurs.
The study was conducted by Ivey Business School professors Simon Parker and Rod White, Languages and Cultures professor Juan Luis Suárez, and Cultureplex Lab postdoctoral scholar Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard.


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The global fish protein market size is expected to gain momentum during the forecast period. Fortune Business Insights in its upcoming report, titled, “Fish Protein Market, 2019-2026.”, mentions that the increasing demand for dietary supplements and the increasing prevalence of heart ailments is projected to surge the demand for fish proteins globally. Moreover, the growing preference for seafood in the human diet to gain essential nutrients is likely to propel the market growth. For instance, as per the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), globally around 3.1 billion people consume fish to ensure they obtain 20% of their overall protein intake.
Fish protein supplements are widely being consumed by people of all ages owing to the presence of essential amino-acids that aid in boosting immunity. The shifting consumer trends towards consuming safer, healthier, and sustainable proteins is further expected to boost the market’s demand. For instance, in January 2021, Avants Meats, a Hong-Kong-based food tech company, announced its partnership with Vinh Hoan Corporation (VHC). The partnership is aimed at accelerating the commercialization of new generation cultivated fish products.
The global pandemic, COVID-19, has led to a major shutdown in industrial activities globally. Although major disruption in supply chain and raw materials has impacted the food and beverage sector, it is likely to garner considerable growth in the forthcoming years. As several food products come under the ambit of essential services, the demand for them is expected to remain positive amid the widespread effect of the novel coronavirus.
List of the Companies Profiled in the Global Market for Fish Protein:
- Omega Protein Corporation
- Bio-marine Ingredients Ireland Ltd.
- Apelsa Guadalajara S.A. de C.V.
- PeterLabs Holdings Berhad
- Advance International, Inc.
- Siam Industries International
- Diana Aqua
- Hofseth BioCare
- Guaymas Protein Company
We have segregated the fish protein market based on type, application, and region. On the basis of type, the market is segmented into fish protein hydrolysate, fish protein concentrate, and fish protein isolate. Furthermore, based on application, the market is segregated into food and beverages, sport nutrition and dietary supplements, animal feed, and others. The others segment is further sub-segmented into pharmaceutical, cosmetic, personal care, and others. Lastly, based on geography, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and the Middle East and Africa.
What does the Report Provide?
The market for report provides in-depth analysis of several factors such as the key drivers and restraints that will impact growth. Additionally, the report provides insights into the regional analysis that covers different regions, which are contributing to the growth of the market. It includes the competitive landscape that involves the leading companies and the adoption of strategies by them to introduce new products, announce partnerships, and collaboration that will further contribute to the market growth in the forthcoming years. Moreover, the research analyst has adopted several research methodologies to obtain information about the current trends and industry developments that will drive the market growth between 2019 and 2026.
Increasing Incidence of Heart Disease to Boost Demand
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 655, 000 deaths due to heart attacks are reported in the U.S. annually. This is estimated to be around 1 in every 4 deaths in the country. The increasing incidence of heart diseases globally is driving the people to adapt to a healthy and nutritious diet. This is expected to boost the demand for innovative fish protein products to suffice the nutrition demand of the population. Moreover, the growing demand for dietary supplements backed by the increasing awareness regarding its benefits among the general public is expected to bode well for the global fish protein market in the forthcoming years.
Asia-Pacific – The region is anticipated to hold a significant share of the global fish protein market in terms of revenue during the forecast period. This is attributable to the easy availability of raw materials and the increasing disposable income of the working population in the region.
North America – According to the research of the Harvard Institute, two out of three American adults are obese that constitutes to about 69% of the total population. The increasing incidence of obesity is expected to drive the adoption of innovative fish protein supplements in the region between 2019 and 2026.
Key Players Focus on Partnership to Intensify Industry Competition
The global market for fish protein is experiencing healthy competition among major companies that are focusing on partnering other companies to expand their product portfolio and further gain a stronghold. Moreover, other key players are leveraging the opportunities provided by the market by adopting several organic and inorganic strategies during the forecast period.
- January 2020 – BlueNalu, the Californian seafood manufacturing company, announced its partnership with Nutreco, an aquafeed manufacturing company. The partnership is aimed at expanding their product portfolio and strengthening their footprint in the global marketplace.
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Earlier this month, the video game industry’s biggest event of the year, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), was held in Los Angeles, and for the first time ever, non-media people were allowed to buy tickets so they can have a go at some of the upcoming video games hitting this later this year and beyond. Aside from overcrowding, long lines, and expensive grub, attendees and exhibitors had another thing to watch out for, and they are robberies.
In a report by Kotaku, it mentions how the trade show opening its doors to the public made everything much worse for attendees and industry folk alike. Not only did the total attendance increase by more than 15,000 people (from E3 2016’s 50,300 to 2017’s 68,400), the Electronic Software Association (ESA), the governing body that handles E3, didn’t even change much to accommodate the added glut of people. If that sounds bad, hold on to your seats, as it gets much, much worse.
According to the report, there’s at least two documented instances of robberies taking place on the actual show floor. Indie development studio Milky Tea’s Scott Swarbick and Kevin Campbell, mentioned that two people grabbed the studio’s laptops from the stand where they were showcasing the game. Swarbick states, “One of them distracted the Dell employee, asking him questions about the hardware and directing him to one side of the stand. As we were all distracted, another person picked up one of the laptops and walked away.” This happened twice in one day, and the laptops have yet to be recovered.
Want another one? An E3 exhibitor who didn’t want to be identified for fear of retaliation from the ESA, claims that equipment was stolen out of the LACC meeting room by actual event security guards. In an email sent by a representative of the company, it recounted how the guards stole the items.
Our meeting room was broken into the night before the show started by E3 security staff. They stole a laptop, two consoles, and four headsets. They used one of our backpacks to get it out. [Security] had clear camera footage of the guards entering and exiting, but because they couldn’t actually see them carrying the stuff, they gave us some !*$% excuse about it not being prosecutable/enforceable. We’re still pushing them for a satisfactory conclusion.
Check out the full report of the thefts, super long lines and more just to see how messed up the situation was.
You can read all about WhatCulture’s E3 2017 coverage right here.


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$49 Athlon 300G confirmed for Nov 19th too.
Strong writing and characterisation can't stop the Outer Worlds from feeling like a retread of Fallout 4.
Case & PSU or cooler & PSU up for grabs!
'Largest technology deal ever,' claims CNBC.
Even as the Silver Lake deal crumbles.
Will sit alongside Dell in the portfolio.
New deal agreed by majority of shareholders.
Pops an extra $500M in the pot.
Michael Dell digs his hand into his pocket.
In a move which admits its past mistakes, eBay has sold 65 percent of its ownership of Skype to a group of private investors - including Netscape founder Andreessen.
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Kate Hudson’s apparel brand Fabletics, is in the process of securing a bank for an IPO.
According to a recent article in the WSJ, the workout-clothing company could be valued upward of $5 billion. Fabletics was founded in 2013 by Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler and is owned by TechStyle Fashion Group. The brand aims to fill a void in the market between high-end brands such as Lululemon and less expensive brands. The Group has selected Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays Plc and Bank of America Corp. for the IPO. Fabletics would be one more emerging consumer-focused brand entering a hot IPO market. Other recent IPO’s include the healthcare apparel startup Figs Inc. Figs, which specialized in better fitting scrubs, began trading less than two months ago and has a roughly $6 billion valuation. The stock has remained above its IPO price even after shares tumbled.


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Warm, fuzzy feelings guaranteed.
Try on designer rentals before committing to them.
They're the shopping bags of Christmas past.
Also, more news from the sisters Mulleavy.
After a European expansion and collaboration with Tom Scott, the Singapore-based label hits the racks at Henri Bendel.
Sometimes window-shopping is all you need!
When the sister co-designers lost their jobs in finance last year, they launched their own fun-but-functional handbag line.
These designer-commissioned totes serve a greater purpose than schlepping your stuff.
Including exclusive Louboutins, 24-karat-gold-topped cookies, Karl Lagerfeld self-portraits, and more!
Eighteen can't-miss spots for shopping, drinking, elbow-rubbing, and generally proving to your Midwestern friends how cool New York is.
Also, Diane Kruger and Penélope Cruz landed beauty campaigns.
And Christina Aguilera chopped all her hair off.
Henri Bendel won't sell clothing for much longer, and discount stores are scooping up the stock.
Bendel is restructuring and expanding. Or ... laying off?
Homegirl's just too darn famous!
In today’s installment, Henri Bendel fashion director Ann Watson loves Y-3’s reworked classics; DVF’s colors and prints; and Tuleh’s sheath dresses.
Kate Somerville's line isn't just available at spas anymore, and a new drug promises to grow eyelashes. Let's see if the FDA approves that one.
Sarah Jessica Parker was worried no one would show up to her fragrance event in Paris, Canada gave Avril Lavigne a hair award, and makeup is now specially made for high-def television.